So Many Actors Are Not

Eight Years Ago, I Was Drawn Into Keats's World By Andrew Motion's Biography. Soon I Was Reading Back And Forth Between Keats's Letters And His Poems. The Letters Were Fresh, Intimate And Irreverent, As Though He Were Present And Speaking. The Keats Spell Went Very Deep For Me.

If You Read Keats's Poems, They're Often Full Of Doubts And Anxieties. They Can Be Quite Tough.

I Didn't Like England. I Couldn't Take The Look Of The Place Or The Style Of Friendship. I Need More Intimacy From People Than Is Considered Okay There, And I Felt That My Personality And My Enthusiasms Weren't Understood. I Had To Put A Big Lid On Myself.

For Me, Being A Director Is About Watching, Not About Telling People What To Do. Or Maybe It's Like Being A Mirror; If They Didn't Have Me To Look At, They Wouldn't Be Able To Put The Make-up On.

In Some Ways Holy Smoke Is About People's Journey To The Heart.